Cessna 172S
N478SP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Above And Beyond Aviation LLC, an LLC in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated September 10, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8023
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A5E070 (octal 51360160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · September 10, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00443636
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Above And Beyond Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4201 Great Plains Dr
Austin, TX 78735-6005
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N478SP, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Above And Beyond Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 24, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated September 10, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N478SP according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N478SP: Accident on April 17, 2023 at Fredericksburg, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during an attempted go-around resulting in abnormal contact with the runway pavement and a runway excursion.
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data